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Prof De Meirleir runs several tests on his patients and one of them includes CD56 cells. If I remember correctly a lower number of CD56 cells is connected to a weaker immune system (like in CFS). But I also found this study which comes to the conclusion that the lower the number of CD56 cells, the higher the symptoms of depression get.

CD57+/CD3- cells are a subset of NK cells. Their exact function, and what differentiates them from CD56+ NK cells, is not well understood. The absolute number of CD57+/CD3- cells is low in patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease (a disease that follows an infection by a bacteria called Borrelia). Patients with very low CD57 have significantly more co-infections and persistent immunologic defects than patients with higher counts. In patients that respond to antibiotic therapy, the number of cells come back to normal, hence this is a useful marker to follow the effect of a therapy.

Low CD57 and high serum C4a and several CFS suffers in same household suspect mold.
Low CD57 and positve Borrelia - Lyme
Low CD57 and positiv zoonosis
Low CD57 and negativ zoonosis, but unknown patogen still indicates infection and inflammation.
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Natural killer T-cells is not the same as NK-cells

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It seems like the article got it all wrong, but what else is there to suspect........when the Psychiatry - fans desperate trying to explaine that CFS is a Psychiatric disorder...........

I changed it. I never wanted to bring up a causality between depression and CD56 cells. Moreover I thought of lower CD56 counts in the first place, which is followed by depression symptoms through some mechanism later.

I really meant the CD56 cells not CD57. Prof De Meirleir tested CD3+CD16CD56+ all together and I'm low. I looked at my test results again.